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ROUND EYE’S LONG EUROPEAN SUMMER MARCH
ROUND EYE, the last band of late Stooges saxophonist Steve Mackay is touring in Europe!
Surprisingly they come from Shanghai, where they were voted for the band of the year two times in a row. Their music is so eclectic and entertaining like Mike Patton’s band Mr. Bungle, but undisputedly punk. The members are American and Italian ex-pats.
Their story has been started when Chachy replaced the American Dream with the Chinese one, and with a big leap moved from Florida to Shanghai. There he has formed his Chinese band ROUND EYE.
His American band was the Libyan Hit Squad. It also was not a simple affair, but was undisputedly punk with such influences as jazz drummer Buddy Rich, free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman, or the hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult. But ROUND EYE adds two more shovelful of it, so their music is hardly descript, but I try: it is an amazing hardcore punk jazz ska rock and roll doo wop blues surf madhouse.
During the recordings of their first album Stooges saxplayer Steve Mackay joined, and made his final album and tour with them. He died 4 months after the album release, but you can listen to him on ROUND EYE second album Monster Vision too which released this year.
And this summer you can catch them somewhere in Europe
12 AUG BUDAPEST (HUNGARY)
RNR666 NIGHT OF INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP
There they going to play together with sax’n’trash band CHICAGO BULLS and PISS CRYSTALS, who play noisy, lil psych, and very alternative rock.
Chachy in China
Craig „Chachy” Englund is an American musician who living in Shanghai for 3 years. His home punk rock band the Libyan Hit Squad is hibernated now. His Chinese band the Round Eye has formed in 2012 by a bunch of ex-pat. Their music is more complex than the LHS. There are rhythm’n’blues and doo wop elements beside punk rock:
Round Eye: slang used by Asians to describe the white man.
Recently released: Libyan Hit Squad / Round Eye 12″ split record
An interview with Chachy
with lots of Chinese music
Your Chinese tour has ended now. Whereabouts you were? What was it? Did you see and experience interesting things?
Full Circle
We have got a nice letter with a download link from China. Chachy ask for a review about his bands’ new split LP. The record is named Full Circle. I have listened it repeatedly, but couldn’t get bore. The American Libyan Hit Squad is on the A side. It’s a very good punk band a la NoMeansNo, and because of the voice of the singer is similar to Jello Biafra’s voice, their music comes into my mind the common album of NoMeansNo and Biafra. In the album title track Greg Ginn plays from Black Flag:
The LHS is now defunct because Chachy, the sole continuous member has moved to Shanghai (maybe to open a tex-mex bar there) and formed the Round Eye with some expat members. This phrase used by Asians to describe the white men. They play be-bop influenced hard rock and roll with alt and baritone saxophones. Their music sometimes almost power pop, but this is not disturbing. It’s a really great album by Genjing Records/ Ripping Records
A Butthole Surfers like track and video: